A. Look at the pictures and find out who The Awful 5 are. What do they do to people?
Get more information about them from the Science lesson.

This is part of a play that you can act out in class.
The whole play is at the back of your book.

A Play – The Awful 5

Connie: Hi! I'm Connie Lung.

Harry: And I'm Harry Wheezer. We're here at the Environmental Protection Agency to cover a late-
breaking story. Some of the world's worst air pollutants are picketing the EPA to protest clean-air legislation.

Connie: In tonight's special report, we will tell you where these pollutants come from and the ways they can hurt people and other living things.

Harry: Let's introduce the folks at home to our pollutant, Carbon Monoxide.

Carbon Monoxide: Yeah, what I do best. I get into the air when cars and trucks don't burn fuel well – but you can't
see or smell me.

Connie: Then how can we tell when you're around?

Carbon Monoxide: You'll find out when you breathe me in! I can give you a bad headache and make you really tired (gives an evil laugh).

Harry: Next we'd like you to meet some of the most dangerous air pollutants – the Toxins. (Toxins walk over, carrying posters and chanting.)

Harry: You Toxins are made up of all kinds of poisons. How do you get into the air?

Toxin 1: Hey, man, we come from just about everywhere. Chemical plants, dry cleaners, dangerous-waste sites, paint factories...

Toxin 2: Yeah, and cars and trucks dump a lot of us into the air, too.

Connie: Scientists say you cause cancer and other kinds of diseases.

Toxin 3: Yea, but they can't prove a thing!

Connie: Next we'd like you to meet Sulphur Dioxide.

Harry: I'm sure the folks at home would like to know how you get into our air.

Sulphur: Well, don't they read the newspapers? I've been making the front page at least once a week! Most of the time, I come out from chimneys when power plants burn coal to make electricity.

Connie: And what kinds of nasty things do you do?

Sulphur: Nasty – that's me! (Snickers) I think it's cool to make it hard for some people to breathe. And I can make trees and other plants grow more slowly. But here's the most rotten thing I do: When I get way up into the air, I react with oxygen in water in the sky, and you get acid rain! (Sprays water at the audience).

B. If you decide to act out the whole play:

choose your roles

learn your parts

set the scenes

choose your costumes

draw posters and masks

find music to accompany your play.

Take photos or a video of your performance and put them in your portfolio.

It's your choice: Look at page 106 and do a different Project

A. Fill in the blanks with a suitable word:

waste, pollution, habitat, lay, endangered, extinct

1. We must do something to protect our world from __________________.

2. Some factories pollute the air and dump their _____________ in the sea.

3. Many plants, animals and fish are becoming _______________________.

4. The turtle Careta-careta and the seal Monachus-monachus are _________________________ species.

5. These animals lose their natural _________________ because of tourism.

6. We must not disturb the turtles when they _______________ their eggs.

B. Match the words or phrases in A with those in B to form correct expressions:

C. REASON and RESULT

Arrange the following words or phrases in pairs under the right heading:

baby turtles take the wrong way

people disturb habitats

hotels on the beach

have headaches

dump industrial waste

smog

animals become extinct

trees grow more slowly

fish die

acid rain

Now, use because, because of, so, as a result and as to join the sentences:

D. Your class went to this beach yesterday. Imagine what people had done some days before. Write 3 sentences:

E. Read Mark's story below about a bad experience he had yesterday. Help him write his
story correctly.

Hi! My name is Mark and I want to tell you my sad story. Yesterday I _________ (go) for a walk

in the forest. I felt very upset when I _________ (see) that some people _________ (cut) down

a lot of trees. The forest sounded silent because the birds _________ (fly) away and many

small animals _________ (leave).The water in the little river was purple as the people ________ (throw) some toxic waste in it. I _________ (never feel) so disappointed and I _________ (decided) to do something to protect the forest. Do you want to help me?

See Workbook

NOW TICK
WHAT YOU CAN DO

REMEMBER when you want to learn new words in English:

• Use them in a song or a story and play word games with your friends.

I can read and understand

A questionnaire

• A story

• A play

I can listen to

• A presentation about endangered species in
an Environmental Centre

I can talk about

• Pollution, endangered species and protection
of the environment

I can write

• An e-mail about environmental problems

I can also

• Create a poster

• Describe what happened before another action in

the past

• Explain why something happens

• Express the result of an action or situation
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